Natural Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

— Thomas Huxley

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith…

— Thomas Huxley

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

— Thomas Huxley

Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains…

— Thomas Huxley

Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge,…

— Thomas Huxley

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from…

— Thomas Huxley

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an…

— Thomas Huxley

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of…

— Thomas Huxley

I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There…

— Thomas Huxley

The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed…

— Thomas Huxley

The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon…

— Thomas Huxley

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works…

— Thomas Huxley